The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-04-07
ESTABLISHED IN 1865.
TWO PROMINENT 1IUGWUMpS IN
TEFVIEWED.
What Daniel H Chamberlain, the Last Carpet
bag Governor Of South Carolina, has to Say
to a News and Courier Reporter on
the Situation.

YES" was the reply. The Pres
ident wanted me to take q place in
his Cabinet, but | couldn't see my
way clear to leaving Charleston at
that time and, as you see, am still
here. You don't appear to be at
your old tricks, disbanding rifle cluLs
for instance"
"Wcll, no." replied the Governor
with a smile, Il am not in politics,
although in ,S4 1 did exert myself {
little to defeat Mr.. Blaine. But want
to talk to you about old Charleston" !"
And for the next half hour the Gov
ernor listened to the recollections Of
the Reporter anent the earthquake.
You know he finally continued,
ut is exactly ten years since | have
been to Charleston, aud as | walked
down here from the hotel I expert
enced a ghost-like feeling. I felt
like man who has been dead for a
generation and had suddenly come
back to life. The place was familiar,
but scarcely met a face that knew
until I saw you. What brave old
people and city it is. | can scarcely
realize that I am in Charleston.
There was the great fire in 1861,
three years Of bombardment, three
years Of yellow fever, those cyclones
OF which have read, and finally the
Observation-Disclosures enough to
have paralyzed half dozen cities,
and yet to-day there seems to be as
much business activity and enter
prise as there was ten years ago. A
city with so much pluck and endu'
rance was surely never born to die.
Never! Old Charleston is bound to
become great city. All her tradi-
tions, all her pluck and endurance
point to it,
'Now, Governor, let's talk about
politics, if you please. Mugwumps
are scarce down here. Are you still
supporter of Mr.. Cleveland?"
"Yes, I have nc hesitation in say
ing that am still q strong Cleveland
man, # that is what you mean. I'll
20 even further and say that I am
stronger for Cleveland than was
when ! voted for him, and / think,
moreover, that that is the general
feeling among the Republicans who
supported him in 1884. If there is
any discomfort / think it is chiefly
among certain Bourbonistic Demo.
Gratis. The Mugwumps quorum paTs
sum seem to me to be better satisfied
with Mr.. Cleveland's Administration
than his own party. I don't know
anybody in the Republican party
who does not admit that Mr.. Cleve-
land has gone farther in the line of
civil service reform than they expect
ed"
who do you regard as having the
best chance for the Republican nom
ination in 1882"
II have always thought and still
think that Blaine could get the nom-
ination if he wanted it. The fact of
bis going abroad does not prevent
him from receiving the Republican
nomination. It is simply an easy
way Of leaving himself on the hands
of his friends. I do not think he can
be elected. My own idea is that
Blaine reached the high tide Of his
political strength in 1884,
"What made you oppose his elcc-
tion?"
"Nlr. Blaine is not, in my opinien,
a man of public integrity. My per-
sonal observations have convinced
me that great many Republicans
who supported him in 1884 would
not do 50 now on the same issue. Ii
he gets the nomination he will be
beaten By any good man the Demo
Gratis may put up. In fact | think
that any republican candidate is
likely BY odds of 3to 2 to be beaten
by Mr.. Cleveland, or any other &C
ceptable Democratic candidate. Mr.
Cleveland's great advantage is that
he has measurably satisfied the re-
form element Of the Republican party
that supported him in 1884. and tho
roughly commended himself to the
business and non-political element OF
the whole country in every section
Whatever dissatisfaction there may
be with Mr.. Cleveland does not point
in the least towards Blaine's success
nor indeed to that Of any man that
the Republican party as now man.
aged may put up. There is strong,
active Bourbon element in the Dem,
ocratic party, but so far as l can see
the reform element Of the country
Democrat and Republican, look &c
the Democratic party more than the